# Shipium named in 2026 Gartner® MCPMS Market Guide

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## Get insights in hours, not weeks

Quickly understand the impacts of operational changes you’re considering — whether it’s greater use of ground services, adding a carrier, or optimizing volume for discount tiers.

#### Optimize for your business goals

Drive continuous improvement by using data from executed shipments, Shipium’s platform-wide data, and industry-leading ML.

#### Improve strategic planning

Strategic planning should rely on data-driven insight, not assumptions. Test your hypotheses quickly and create faster, more iterative decision-making cycles.

#### Justify operational changes

Make a business case for network changes when simulation results meet your desired thresholds for performance improvement, cost reduction, or both.

## How Shipium Simulation takes you from what-if to what’s next

Between faster setup, intuitive insights, and guidance from our expert customer success team, here’s how we ensure that your simulations are a success.

### Simple setup, fast execution

Provide us with your historical data and define your unique network properties like carriers, rates, origins, and volume limits. Then, apply your simulation constraints, run predictive scenarios, and get to answers quickly.

- Change carriers and/or rates
- Apply different delivery date constraints
- Test new rule configurations
- Adjust volume limits
- Much, much more

We also offer templates for common simulations to further accelerate the process.

### Easy consumption and analysis

Insights are presented using intuitive reports and data visualizations that make results easy to understand and act on.

### Guidance from experts

Our team is here to help you through the process, having run dozens of simulations a quarter for enterprise customers. Assisted setup and use case guidance ensure that you get the outcomes you’re looking for.

## Built on AI + ML, not hype

Real data science has been at the core of what we do since the beginning — built on the same principles that revolutionized Amazon’s supply chain.

### It starts with data

Predictions are only as good as the data that informs them. Shipium accounts for your historical data, combines it data sourced from 350+ million shipments, and accounts for real-world conditions like weather events and carrier bulletins.

### Your network properties are represented

Models are trained to generate predictions based on your carriers, pull times, rates, origins, business rules and more.

### Models for essential use cases

Shipium’s models are tailored to unique use cases like delivery promise presentation, origin selection, and optimal carrier selection — our data science team is also constantly testing new models to add to the platform.

### Dedicated data science team

Our data science leaders and engineers bring deep expertise from places like MIT and Amazon, and apply that experience to solve real-world problems for shippers.

## Use Cases

### Intelligent Downgrades

See when cheaper service methods would have delivered just as fast (or faster)
- Simulate executed shipments using non-guaranteed methods like FedEx or UPS Ground
- View impacts to transit times and costs to meet your desired speed:cost ratio
- Continuously reduce what it costs to hit promised delivery dates

### Dynamic Volume Allocation

Balance contractual obligations with pure date + rate shopping
- Analyze which shipments should be sent via a specific carrier to meet a commitment at the lowest cost
- Rebalance volume when there are cost saving opportunities that still meet desired thresholds
- Compare differences between pure cost-based rate shopping and rate shopping with minimum limit requirements

### GRI Increases

Understand how upcoming rate increases will impact costs
- Approach contract negotiations armed with your knowledge of expected cost increases by lane
- Plan for volume shifts and changes to origin selection based on new cost structures

### Faster Promise Dates

Know how more competitive promise dates would impact your costs
- Present more competitive delivery dates to customers whenever they meet your desired cost threshold
- Keep pace with (or beat) your competitors on delivery speed

### Branded Shipping Options 3PL

Meet your promise dates at the lowest cost
- Offer custom shipping options with SLAs and find the cheapest carrier and service that will meet them
- Adjust SLAs when different transit times are predicted to drive better business outcomes

## Case Study

### How Simulation improved decision velocity for a Fortune 500 Retailer

Between faster setup, intuitive insights, and guidance from our expert customer success team, here’s how we ensure that your simulations are a success.

### Simulation Categories

- Volume Thresholds
- Intelligent Downgrades
- GRI Impact
- ZIP/Zone Rule Efficacy
- Carrier Network Expansion

**Desired Outputs**

- Discount Tier Report
- Downgrade Opportunity Report
- GRI Cost Impact Analysis
- Carrier Cost & Performance Reporting by Zone
- Cost & Performance Reporting by Carrier

#### 39
Simulations run in a single quarter to address desired scenarios

#### -$0.22
Early cost-per-package reduction based on results

#### $10+ Million
Projected savings in 2025 for warehouse origins alone

## Smarter scenario planning powers outcomes aligned with your business goals

## Simulation

[Predict the impact of network changes](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/simulation)

## Delivery Promise

[Present exact delivery dates to customers](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/delivery-promise)

## Delivery Date Enhancement

[Improve accuracy by replacing static transit times](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/delivery-date-enhancement)

## Shipment Tracking

[Consolidate and standardize event updates](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/shipment-tracking)

## Route Optimization

[Optimize where to ship from, when to ship, and how to ship](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/route-optimization)

## Packaging Optimization

[Choose the right packaging](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/packaging-optimization)

## Address Validation

[Ensure address accuracy](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/address-validation)

## Mode Optimization

[Parcel and LTL rating workflows](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/mode-optimization)

## Zone Skipping

[Manage complex injection schemes](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/zone-skipping)

## Carrier Load Management

[Balance discounts, limits, and rules](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/carrier-load-management)

## Rating Engine

[Compare rates and select carriers](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/rating-engine)

## Label Engine

[Create and customize shipping labels](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/label-engine)

## Pack Station

[Attendant shipping for warehouses](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/pack-station)

## Ship-from-Store

[Connected shipping for stores](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/ship-from-store)

## Dropshipping

[Pass decisions to suppliers](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/dropshipping)

## International Shipping

[Manage cross-border shipments](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/international-shipping)

## Billing Management

[Reconcile invoice discrepancies and bill customers faster](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/billing-management)

## Shipping Analytics

[Analyze any aspect of shipping performance](https://www.shipium.com/solutions/shipping-analytics)